St. Patrick’s Day is a family affair Is an Irish bar really hell? Waukesha Freeman 3/14/13 Page A6 Opinion If I weren’t Irish, what would I be? I’d be ashamed. One of the advantages of being Irish is that I don’t have to drink green beer on St. Patrick’s Day. I’ll drink the good Irish […]

~ THE PATH TO FREEDOM~ Notes by General Michael Collins August, 1922 WHY BRITAIN SOUGHT IRISH PEACE Her Failure to Subjugate Us: Making of the Treaty. Peace with Ireland, or a good case for further, and what would undoubtedly have been more intensive, war, had become a necessity to the British Cabinet. Politicians of both […]

On Easter Monday 1916, Irish rebels took control of the General Post Office, the Four Courts, Jacob’s Factory, Boland’s Bakery, the South Dublin Union, St. Stephen’s Green and later the College of Surgeons. The General Post Office became the headquarters of the uprising. When the uprising was suppressed, 450 killed, 2,614 injured, and 9 were […]